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Submitted to YouTube by logolou: "A large ball of fire streaking across the night time skies just after midnight had many Utahn's wondering what they saw early Wednesday morning."
Video: Meteor Lights Up Night Sky Above Utah
Now that was a powerful looking air-burst.
Any estimates as to the energy released to light up the area like? I was just thinking of Tunguska and wondering if there was ground damage from the fireball.
With reference to Tunguska, I notice that a bit of this meteor survived and was seen, still descending, after the airburst. It reminded me that there is a lake in teh Tunguska region that is believed by sme to be the impact crater of the remant of the object that survived the air-burst. Once again, if this pattern is followed, there might be a small and subtle impact feature from this object too.
In this day and age, why do people still wonder what they see? Is our education system that poor?
replied to comment from Spectreman
| November 23, 2009 4:59 PM
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Maybe they're wondering "natural or artificial?" We've got enough stuff up there that is no longer/never was controllable that it could just as probably be a PLF or a disused satelite as a meteor or a cometary fragment.
Given the popular paranoia about fission power, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people wondering were afraid it was a military satellite's "nuclear reactor" (an RTG) blowing up or something.
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Wow.
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